Re: systimer01.patch available for review.

-On [20040128 19:32], Matthew Dillon (dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Broken assembly is typically __asm() code that fails to properly
> specify register state (what's being read, written, modified, and
> blown away). Broken C tends to be C code that uses unions to load
> elements of one type, and then read elements of another type
> overlayed on the first set of elements via the union. Or something
> like that.
Which brings me to another point:
if you/we want to make everything compiler agnostic it would mean taking
the assembly out of the .[ch] files and put them in .s files. Not all
compilers do inline assembly. And not even all do it as gcc/gas do it
(syntactically).
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